David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of many books including Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and Race and Reunion, which received the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize, among other awards.

Buy Elsewhere

About HUP eBooks Find at a Library »

Awards & Accolades

2002 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University

2002 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

2002 Merle Curti Award in Social History and in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians

2002 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians

Co-Winner, 2002 James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations, Organization of American Historians

2001 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

A Salon Top 12 Civil War Book Ever Written

A Huffington Post “Books That Will Help You Understand America” Selection, 2017

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism, by Philip J. Stern, from Harvard University Press

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Jacket: Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, by Peter Wilson, from Harvard University Press

A Lesson in German Military History with Peter Wilson

In his landmark book Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, acclaimed historian Peter H. Wilson offers a masterful reappraisal of German militarism and warfighting over the last five centuries, leading to the rise of Prussia and the world wars. Below, Wilson answers our questions about this complex history, …